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A comprehensive study of the development of Caryl Churchill's theatre from her early writing for radio and television, through her stage career of the 1970s and 1980s to The Striker and including analysis of such plays as Cloud Nine and Top Girls, which first brought her international recognition. Detailed evaluation of plays such as Serious Money and Mad Forest and including an assesment of her recent play Hotel (1997) shows why Churchill has come to be recognised as one of the leading playwrights of contemporary theatre.

Spanning ten years of Churchill's work, these plays cover a remarkable range of subjects, written in different styles. As well as 'Ice Cream', 'The Striker' and other dramas there are two collaboratove works combining words and dance.

This play addresses the issue of the increasingly accepted levels of inhumanity in a world seemingly perpetually involved in conflict, whether in Chechnya or Sierra Leone, Fiji or Zimbabwe. The story centres around a girl, a young man and her aunt and their experiences over a number of years.

Perhaps Caryl Churchill's most notorious play, Serious Money is a satirical study of the effects of the Big Bang, which has prompted city financiers to applaud and decry its presentation of their lives. Since then it has provoked city financiers the world over to heated debate.

Management Teaching use: Through all the frenetic wheeling and dealing the basic theme of this text is a questioning of the ethics of trading stocks, shares and futures. The participation of society in the financial world is shown all the way from government ministers to the floor of the City exchanges. A fruitful source of discussion might be the question of corporate governance and corporate social responsibility and the divergence from good practice exhibited by the cast of characters. Students could debate just how far their principles would allow them to go in the pursuit of personal or corporate wealth.